Capital Call Management Portfolio Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
portfolios. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Great product managers who are not great business people still often fail. But they should also be the map and the Lingua Franca of your management discussions.
ithacaVC
MAY 10, 2011
That means that it has capital commitments from investors of $100mm. Capital is called when needed for investment, fund expenses or management fee. And, VC1 does not reinvest capital returned (with very few limited exceptions) – VCs are not hedge funds! salary paid from management fees.
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Altgate
MARCH 8, 2009
Growth stage investors are usually the Series B or C investors who come in when the product is in the market but there is little or no revenue and the team is probably in the 20-something range with the goal to ramp it up to 40-50 employees with the new money, build out a sales team, etc. But some will be saved. “Series B&# funds.
Venture Chronicles
JULY 16, 2010
What happens is that the fund will feel the need to clean up the portfolio and shed the lower tier investments in a sector to consolidate around the top performers, as measured by their potential for new investment. In normal times the term sheet and due diligence process all but guaranteed the investment as far as the startup was concerned.
Professor VC
JANUARY 20, 2009
At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process. However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Same principle here.
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